GCEP Technical Report 2015

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2015 Technical Report

1. Introduction
1. Introduction

2. Full Scale Research Activities -- Progress Reports
2.1 Renewable Energy-Solar
2.1.1 Introduction
2.1.2 Toward High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells Combining Multi-Junctions and Nano-Scale Light Management
James Harris, Shanhui Fan, Yi Cui, and Mark Brongersma
2.1.3 Dielectric Metasurfaces for Light Trapping in High‐efficiency Low‐cost Silicon Solar Cells
Mark Brongersma
2.1.4 Maximizing Solar-to-Fuel Conversion Efficiency in Oxide Photo-electrochemical Cells Using Heat and Concentrated Sunlight
William Chueh and Nicholas Melosh
2.1.5 Novel Inorganic-organic Perovskites for Solution Processable Photovoltaic
Michael D. McGehee and Hemamala I. Karunadasa

2.2 Renewable Energy-Biomass
2.2.1 Introduction to Renewable Energy-Biomass
2.2.2 Capturing Electrical Current via Mechanisms Used for Interspecies Electron Transfer to Produce Methane
Alfred Spormann and Bruce Logan
2.2.3 Lignin Management: Optimizing Yield in Lignin‐Modified Plant
Clint Chapple, Wout Boerjan, Claire Halpin, John Ralph, and Xu "Sirius" Li

2.3 CO₂ Capture & Separation
2.3.1 Introduction to CO₂ Capture and Separation
2.3.2 Biomimetic Sorbents for Selective CO₂ Capture
Jennifer Wilcox, Daniel P Stack, Zhenan Bao
2.3.3 New Materials and Process development for Energy-Efficient Carbon Capture in the Presence of Water Vapor
Randall Snurr, Joseph Hupp, Omar Farha and Fengqi You
2.3.4 Chemically-Complexing Ionic Liquids for Pre-Combustion CO₂ Capture
Joan Brennecke, Brandon Ashfeld, Edward Maginn, William Schneider, and Mark Stadtherr
2.3.5 Carbon Capture Systems Analysis: Comparing Exergy Efficiency and Cost of Electricity of Existing and Future Technology Options
Chris F. Edwards and Adam R. Brandt
2.3.6 Systems Analysis of Advanced Power Plant Carbon Capture Technologies
Edward S. Rubin

2.4 CO₂ Storage
2.4.1 Introduction to CO₂ Storage
2.4.2 Investigations in Geologic Carbon Sequestration: Multiphase Flow of CO₂ and Water in Reservoir Rocks
Sally Benson

2.5 Advanced Materials and Catalysts
2.5.1 Introduction to Advanced Materials and Catalysts
2.5.2 Using First-principles Simulations to Discover Materials with Ultra-low Work Functions for Energy Conversion Applications
Roger Howe, Jens Norskov and Piero Pianetta
2.5.3 Nanostructured CU Electrodes for Energy-Efficient Conversion of CO₂ to Fuel
Matthew Kanan
2.5.4 Schottky Tunnel Contacts for Efficient Coupling of Photovoltaics and Catalysts
Paul McIntyre and Christopher Chidsey
2.5.5 Reductive Bond Formation with Carbon Dioxide and Water Oxidation: Immobilized Copper Complexes as Discrete Electrocatalysts on Carbon Surfaces
T. Daniel P. Stack and Christopher Chidsey
2.5.6 Electrohydrogenation: Enabling Science for Renewable Fuels
Robert Waymouth and Christopher Chidsey
2.5.7 Combining Theory and Experiment to Design and Develop Active, Selective Metal Alloy Catalysts for the Electrochemical Conversion of CO₂ and CO to Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals
Thomas F. Jaramillo, Jens K. Nørskov, and Anders Nilsson

2.6 Advanced Coal
2.6.1 Introduction to Advanced Coal
2.6.2 Co-generation of Carbon-Free Hydrogen and Electricity from Coal in a Steam-Carbon Fuel Cell with Carbon Capture
Reginald Mitchell and Turgut Gur

2.7 Grid Storage
2.7.1 Introduction to Grid Storage
2.7.2 A Novel Solid Oxide Flow Battery Utilizing H-C-O Chemistry (CSM)
Scott Barnett, Robert Braun and Robert Kee
2.7.3 Novel Electrolyte Energy Storage Systems
Allen Bard, Thomas Zawodzinski and Alex Papandrew
2.7.4 Photoelectrochemically Rechargeable Zn-Air Batteries
Hongjie Dai

2.8 Advanced Transportation Systems
2.8.1 Introduction to Advanced Transportation Systems
2.8.2 Self-Healing Polymers for HighEnergy-Density Lithium Ion Battery
Zhenan Bao and Yi Cui

2.9 Energy Systems Analysis
2.9.1 Introduction to Energy Systems Analysis
2.9.2 Energy Systems Analysis
Sally Benson

3. Scoping Research Activities -- Progress Reports
3.1 Introduction to Ongoing Scoping Research Activities
3.2 Enhancing Hydride Thermodynamics Through Nanostructuring
Jennifer Wilcox
3.3 New Pathways Towards High Performance Transparent Conductive Oxides
Xiaolin Zheng
3.4 Enabling Methods and Materials for Stackable Tandem Solar Cells with Polymer Electrolyte Interconnect
Paul McIntyre and Alberto Salleo
3.5 A Microbial Platform for Conversin of Methane and Syngas to Biofuels and Industrial Chemicals
Alfred M. Spormann
3.6 Optimization of Carrier Transport Processes and Figure of Merit for an Internediate Band Solar Cell
Aaron Lindenberg and Jacob Krich
4. Cost-shared Research - Progress Reports
4.1 Introduction to Cost-shared Research Programs
4.1.1 GCEP Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium (BAPVC)
Yi Cui (Lead PI)
4.1.2 GCEP-funded SCCS Project Report
Anthony R. Kovscek (Lead PI)

5. Full-Scale Research Activities - Final Reports
5.1 Introduction to Completed Full-Scale Research Activities
5.2 Hydrogen Production, Distribution and Use
5.2.1 Efficient, Highly Productive Hydrogen Production from Glucose
James Swartz
5.3 Renewable Energy - Solar
5.3.1 Advanced Electron Transport Materials for Application in Organic Photovoltaics (OPV)
Michael McGehee and Alan Sellinger
5.3.2 All Carbon Solar Cells
Zhenan Bao
5.3.3 Upconverting Electrodes for Improved Solar Energy Conversion
Jennifer Dionne and Alberto Salleo
5.4 Renewable Energy-Biomass
5.4.1 Synthesis of Biofuels on Bioelectrodes
Alfred Spormann
5.5 CO₂ Storage
5.5.1 Linking Chemical and Physical Effects of CO₂ Injection to Geophysical Parameters
Gary Mavko, Rolf Arvidson, Andreas Luttge
5.5.2 Reactivity of CO₂ In the Subsurface
Katharine Maher, Dennis Bird and Gordon Brown
5.6 Advanced Combustion
5.6.1 Use of mixed combustion/electrochemical energy conversion to achieve efficiencies in excess of 70% for transportation-scale engines
Christopher Edwards
5.7 Advanced Electric Infrastucture
5.7.1 Scalable and Flat Controls for Reliable Power Grid Operation with High Renewable Penetration
Kevin Tomsovic, Thomas Overbye, Peter Sauer, George Gross, Philip Krein, Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, Hanoch Lev-Ari, Ali Abur, Joe Chow, Jian Sun, Daniel Shawhan, and Aleksander Stankovic
5.8 Grid Storage
5.8.1 Safe, Inexpensive, and Very High Power Batteries For Use To Reduce Short Term Transients on the Electric Grid
Robert Huggins and Yi Cui

6. Scoping Research Activities - Final Reports
6.1 Introduction to Completed Scoping Research Activities
6.2 Atomically Engineering Oxide Heterostructures for Solar Water Splitting Catalysis
Harold Hwang
6.3 Gas Molecules as the Next-Generation Thermoelectric: Extracting Electricity from Hot Gas with No Moving Parts
William Chueh